SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of diversified experience in software testing and Quality Assurance in various domains like Finance, Banking and Insurance.
• Gathered and attended Business Review meetings with BAs to better understand the requirements before initiating the test plan and test case preparation
• Conducted and attended triage, peer review and walkthrough meetings among the teams to discuss the functionalities of the application
• Experience with full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Test Life Cycle (STLC)
• Experienced in Manual and Automated QA testing of Client/Server, Web applications.
• Expertise in tracking and reporting defects in Quality Center, Clear Quest and Jack track.
• Extensive experience in Black box, Functional, Integration, Regression, System, UAT and Performance testing
• Identified, created and executed Regression test suite for each release along the new functional test cases
• Proficient in developing detailed Test Cases using Business requirement and use case document and executed for status reporting purpose in Quality Center
• Experience in using Quick Test Professional (QTP) for automating the Web based applications
• Updated SQL queries to accommodate test data for Regression test suite
• Knowledge in developing and maintaining overall testing methodology and strategy documenting and test plans
• Expert in writing and executing simple and complex SQL statements using various reserved words and joins
• Establishing the Connectivity between SQL Developer and Oracle Database to write and execute SQL statements while preparing the test data for several test scenarios
• Experienced in Backend Testing using SQL for data integrity.
• Created and executed test scenarios using Verification (positive) and Validation (Negative) test data.
• Tested the entire functionality of the application on different browsers and operating systems as a part of compatibility test.
• Involved in learning objects, creating minimal scripts using QTP to conduct the regression test scripts
• Knowledge in web services Testing (SOAP, XML, WSDL, XSL and XSD).
• Interacted and discussed application and environmental issues with developers and build engineers to understand the issues.
• Extensively participated in defect review meetings to discuss and better understand/explain the defects with developers, team lead and stakeholders periodically.
• Proficient in MS - Office, TOAD, SQL Developer Tools.
• Inserted check points, Transaction points, Synchronization point, iterative (For, While, etc) and conditional statements (If and Case) in QTP scripts while editing them
• Good knowledge in UNIX commands and shell scripting
• Possess strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with ability to co-ordinate activities and work in team environment to meet the deliverables.
• Always open to new ideas with a strong desire to expand knowledge of systems and processes.
• Ability to work independent or as a team member, excellent written and verbal communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Mercury Test Director7.0/8.0 / HP Quality Center 9.0/10.0, QTP 9.0/8.2, Load Runner 9.0/8.0, WinRunner7.6/7.2, Rational Team Test 7.1/7.5, Rational Robot, Test Manager and Requisite pro

Bug tracking Tool: Rational Clear Quest 7.0.1, Jack Track and Mantis

Domain Knowledge: Finance, Insurance and Banking.

Languages: C, C++, Java 2.0

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, UNIX, Sun Solaris 5.8.

.NET Technologies: Visual Basic. NET, Visual C#. NET, ASP.NET

Component Technology: COM, DCOM, COM+, .Net Framework, .Net Assemblies

Internet Programming: HTML, DHTML, XHTML, XML, XSLT, Java Script, VB Script, ASP 3.0, Dream weaver 8, Flash Professional 8

Databases: Oracle 10g, 9i /8i /11i, SQL Server 2000, MS Access 2003

Version Control: Visual SourceSafe and Polytron Version Control System (PVCS)

Web Servers: PWS, Tomcat 5.0, Apache 1.3.4 and IIS 4.0.

Application Servers: Web logic 9.0/8.0/7.0, Web Sphere 5.1 and JBoss 4.2

Other Tools: TOAD, SQL Developer, Putty, FTP, MS Word, MS Excel and MS Power Point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, GA

QA Analyst /Tester

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and Analyzed Business Requirements, High level Design and Use Case documents to start developing Test Plan and detailed test cases
• Created and updated the Regression Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing in QC
• Prepared and executed more than 400 test scenarios for different bidding process in WIT auction Application.
• Involved in writing Test plan for my module during the Planning phase
• Tested active bid user status in several browsers including blackberry, iphone and ipads.
• Created the Functional Test cases and automated them for the purpose of Verification and Validation of the application functionality
• Created and executed SQL queries in SQL developer to prepare test data against Oracle Database
• Extensively worked with the development team in order to resolve testing issues.
• Logged and maintained the defects in Quality Center to the development team for fixes
• Retested the fixed defects in the next build by reviewing the release notes in QC
• Interacted with peers to entertain peer review meetings and reproduced the issues before raising the defects
• Generated and maintained Test Logs and Test Summary Reports

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, HTML, VB Script, SQL Developer, Excel 200 CSS, Oracle 10i, JavaScript, Windows XP and IMacros.

Confidential, VA

QA Analyst /Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Requirement & High level Design documents.
• Created the Regression Test suite and automated them for the purpose of regression testing
• Implemented QTP 9.0 for automating the Regression test Sets.
• Designed and implemented the custom keyword driven QTP framework.
• Reported the defects to the development team in Rational Clear Quest
• Interacted with other QA Team members to discuss the issues before reporting them to development
• Used the QTP built in functions and enhanced VB scripts for business logic.
• Created and managed objects in the application using Object Repository in Quick Test Pro
• Modified the scripts by inserting Text, Bitmap and Synchronization and checkpoints.
• Ran the different test sets for each individual module.
• Carried out extensive Backend Testing to ensure proper backup and restoring of data using SQL queries.
• Extensively used SQL queries to get the necessary data from Oracle data base and embedded in to each individual test scripts
• Involved in Pre-prod and Production certification activities.
• Maintained Test Logs and Test Summary Reports
• Generated Reports and Documented and Communicated test results on daily basis
• Preparing the Test Reports and maintaining of test repository.

Environment: HP Quality Center 9.0, QTP 9.0, Java 1.4, HTML, XML, PL/SQL, Oracle 10g, TOAD, UNIX, Java Servlets, Jakarta Struts1.1, Tiles, Log4J, Eclipse3.1, Harvest, Web services, Web logic 9.2, CSS, JavaScript, Windows XP, Sun solaria’s 5.8, Rational Clear quest 7.0.1, Citrix Meta Frame.

Confidential, Bloomington IL

QA Analyst /Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Technical Specifications, Business Specifications and created Test Cases.
• Developed and executed manual test scripts as per requirements.
• Tested the functionality of each scenario like positive and negative test cases.
• Recorded automation scripts for web applications using Rational Test Manager.
• Enhanced automation scripts using Rational Test Manager.
• Parameterized to test the application many times using different sets of Input values.
• Used SQL commands and pull up the data for testing the application data.
• Logged the defects, tracked the status and verified when fixed.
• Conducted Functional and Regression using Rational Test Manager.
• Performed detailed Functional testing, GUI testing for checking functionality.
• Performed Regression Testing to make sure that all the bugs have been fixed and the application is running properly.
• Validated the data by writing SQL Queries and Unix Scripts.
• Conducted Functional, Regression and UAT Tests.
• Software Bug Identification, tracking and reporting using Rational Clear Quest.

Environment: Rational Test Manager, RequisitePro, Clear Quest, ClearCase, Robot, Java, J2EE, HTML, VB, JavaScript, XML, Oracle 8i, DB2, Windows XP, MS-Office, DOORS 8.1

Confidential, OH

QA Analyst /Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business requirement, functional specifications and created the test cases in Quality Center.
• Created and executed Test Cases manually to conduct the System Testing.
• Conducted Integration testing on all application components and interfaces to validate their data exchange with each other.
• Performed Regression Testing using for different builds to satisfy changes in requirements and to verify it’s affect on other modules.
• Identified, Documented and Tracked defects in Quality Center.
• Involved in writing SQL queries to perform Backend testing.
• Prepared preconditioned data for negative and positive testing of the application.
• Involved in review meetings to identify the enhancements and modify the Functional Test Cases as required.
• Worked closely with Developers to resolve the issues.

Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Source Safe, Quick Test Pro, Quality Center 8.2, UNIX Shell Scripts, VB Script, Oracle 10g, MS Office, Windows 2000.